SABMiller, WWF and the German International development agency (GIZ) are imploring other companies and NGOs to participate in the Water Futures Partnership, which they created in 2009 to show the business case for the private sector to promote sustainable water resources management.

Last fall, Kimberly-Clark Health Care turned to students at the Rhode Island School of Design for inspiration and ideas about a second life for Kimguard, the most widely used sterilization material on the market.

Want to engage your employees or customers on sustainability? Companies are finding that gaming -- and a little friendly competition -- can be an effective means of getting people to tune in to your sustainability initiative.

To better manage water-related risks, PepsiCo has tapped The Nature Conservancy to help it study the watersheds of five facilities in the hope that the lessons learned there may be applied across the beverage giant's global operations.